Shelby and I spent the day out and about yesterday, she ran some errandswith me and got a couple chances to run around and enjoy the brisk fall day.

First we went to my work because I had left some textbooks I needed there.I'm don't do offleash at parks or anything, but there is an open field that noone is ever in behind the hospital (not pretty, though!) so I let her offleash andplayed fetch with her hedgehog while I played with the sport mode on my camera.

Silly tail!

Then we went to a park by our house for some walking and a little bit of distractionobedience. She does well with the distractions that her dog classes presents, andwith the distractions that a store like Home Depot or Petsmart provides, so I thoughtit was time to step it up a little. Yesterday she saw her first squirrel.... and failed.We will continue to work in the park because she couldn't even bring herself to makeeye contact with me for watching the squirrels, and she usually has excellent eyecontact. Boooo for too much distraction, but she still got a nice little walk in and weplayed on some unusual surfaces at the playground.